On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 22:23:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm no package management expert. I only install packages when I need > new capabilities, or when doing security updates. I discovered during > this apache2 troubleshooting that I had 1.6GB of .deb files in the apt > package cache. I did an 'aptitude autoclean' and that cut it down to 430MB. > > Is there any good reason to not go ahead and run 'aptitude clean' and > just get rid of all of those? What purpose do they serve once a package > has been installed? I can't recall ever reinstalling a package after > I've removed it.
Unless you are bandwidth constrained, using a cache as a repository for other machines or just lazy I cannot think of a compelling reason not to 'clean' it. With unstable I tend to leave it for a while just in case it is necessary to roll back to a known working set of packages in the event there is some update which causes a problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111017172303.GB2913@desktop